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(11) EP 0 364 017 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
25.03.1992 Bulletin 1992/13

(43) Date of publication A2:
18.04.1990 Bulletin 1990/16

(21) Application number: 89202393.8

(22) Date of filing: 22.09.1989
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)5: B21D 43/28, B65H 29/68, B21D 43/09
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH DE ES FR GB GR LI LU NL SE

(30) Priority: 11.10.1988 IT 2226688

(71) Applicant: FIMI S.p.A. FABBRICA IMPIANTI MACCHINE INDUSTRIALI
I-22026 Vigano (Como) (IT)

(72) Inventors:
  • Parigi, Marcello
    I-20090 Segrate Milan (IT)
  • Rovelli, Pompeo
    I-22062 Barzano Como (IT)

(74) Representative: Fusina, Gerolamo et al
Ing. Barzanò & Zanardo Milano S.p.A, Via Borgonuovo, 10
I-20121 Milano
I-20121 Milano (IT)


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    (54) Machine for slowing down a series of iron sheets travelling in close succession after each other along a production line


    (57) The machine (1) for slowing down a series of iron sheets (21) traveling in close succession after each other along a production line (26) is installed between a conveyor belt (30) and a collecting area or pit (31) destined to collect said sheets (21). The machine (1) slows down the sheets (21) incoming from the conveyor belt (30) before they bump into a stop shoulder (32) provided on a wall of the same collecting pit (31), thus preventing the iron sheets from being damaged by such an impact.
    The machine (1) substantially comprises a pair of grooved-surface rubber-coated rolles (3,4) between which the sheet (21) to be slowed down runs. The sheet (21) runs between such rollers releasing its excess of kinetic energy without that relative slippings take place between the surfaces of the sheets (21) and of the rolls (3,4), and without that the trailing edge and the leading edge of two successive sheets (21) bump into each other.







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